> Why do you want to do this?  There is a String.set function that allows 
> you to modify a character of a string.  For a list, if you need to modify 
> an element then it should be a list of reference cells.  But I think that 
> in practice it would be strange for either operation to be necessary.

I would like to avoid unwanted run time behaviour because of unnecessary data
copying when I will append text lines to a growing list.
http://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/comparison_of_standard_containers.html#Listsimmutablesinglylinkedlists

I imagine that in-place modification will be a more efficient approach for my
use case. Is a kind of list buffer available?

Regards,
Markus
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